Darwin was young and generally in good health, though six months previously he had been ill for a month near Valparaiso, but in 1837, almost a year after he returned to England, he began to suffer intermittently from a strange group of symptoms, becoming incapacitated for much of the rest of his life.

Lyell and Hooker were instrumental in arranging the peaceful co-publication of the theory of natural selection by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in 1858: each had arrived at the theory independently.

Quite strong remarks: no doubt Darwin resented Lyell's repeated suggestion that he owed a lot to Lamarck, whom he ( Darwin ) had always specifically rejected.

John Clements Wickham named the region " Port Darwin " in honour of their former shipmate Charles Darwin, who had sailed with them on the ship's previous voyage which had ended in October 1836.

The ship's captain, Commander John Clements Wickham, named the port after Charles Darwin, the British naturalist who had sailed with them both on the earlier second expedition of the Beagle.

It was the same fleet that had bombed Pearl Harbor, though a considerably larger number of bombs were dropped on Darwin than on Pearl Harbor.

Many of the proponents of Darwinism at that time, including Huxley, had reservations about the significance of natural selection, and Darwin himself gave credence to what was later called Lamarckism.

Darwin in 1770Darwin married twice and had 14 children, including two illegitimate daughters by an employee, and, possibly, at least one further illegitimate daughter.

Butler developed the three chapters of Erewhon that make up " The Book of the Machines " from a number of articles that he had contributed to The Press, which had just begun publication in Christchurch, New Zealand, beginning with " Darwin among the Machines " ( 1863 ).

For example, at the time that Darwin first published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ( 1859 ), no remains of human ancestors had yet been found.

Darwin did not use the term in Origin of Species until its sixth edition in 1872, ( though earlier editions did use the word " evolved ") by which time Herbert Spencer had given it scientific currency with a broad definition of progression in complexity in 1862.

Faunal succession was one of the chief pieces of evidence cited by Darwin that biological evolution had occurred.

His grandfather, an amateur naturalist by the name of Walter Drawbridge Crick ( 1857 – 1903 ), wrote a survey of local foraminifera ( single-celled protists with shells ), corresponded with Charles Darwin, and had two gastropods ( snails or slugs ) named after him.

Other theories included the pangenesis of Charles Darwin ( which had both acquired and inherited aspects ) and Francis Galton's reformulation of pangenesis as both particulate and inherited.

However, the quote in context shows that Darwin actually had a very good understanding of the evolution of the eye.

Lyell's books had widespread influence, not least on the up and coming young geologist Charles Darwin who read them with enthusiasm during his voyage on the Beagle, and has been described as Lyell's first disciple.

Studies of Charles Darwin's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natural selection which he set out in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, but it has been speculated that he may have had some half-forgotten memory from his time as a student in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by William Charles Wells and Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publishing their ideas on the topic early in the 19th century.

In 1999, his Australian tour was cut short when he had to be hospitalized in Darwin with viral meningitis.

Darwin was a physician and poet who had studied at Cambridge and Edinburgh ; Boulton had left school at fourteen and started work in his father's business making metal goods in Birmingham at the age of 21.

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While the Darwin Awards are named after Charles Darwin, due to his theory of natural selection, there is no evidence that the stories depicted actually represent the removal of " judgement impairment genes " from the gene pool.

While there is no scientific basis in Darwinism for the Darwin Awards, the stories are nevertheless entertaining, and can be thought of as an example of schadenfreude – deriving entertainment value out of the misfortune of others.

Mayr never won a Nobel Prize, but he noted that there is no Prize for evolutionary biology and that Darwin would not have received one, either.

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However, Darwin wrote, " I can by no means agree ... that immigration and isolation are necessary elements ....

Ryder argued in the pamphlet that " Since Darwin, scientists have agreed that there is no ' magical ' essential difference between humans and other animals, biologically-speaking.

The three Fuegian missionaries the expedition returned to Tierra del Fuego were friendly and civilised, yet to Darwin their relatives on the island seemed " miserable, degraded savages ", and he no longer saw an unbridgeable gap between humans and animals.

Darwin described natural selection as being analogous to the artificial selection practised by animal breeders, and emphasised competition between individuals ; Wallace drew no comparison to selective breeding, and focused on ecological pressures that kept different varieties adapted to local conditions.

In Darwin's time there was no agreed-upon model of heredity ; in Chapter I Darwin admitted, " The laws governing inheritance are quite unknown.

Darwin concluded: " Finally, then, the facts briefly given in this chapter do not seem to me opposed to, but even rather to support the view, that there is no fundamental distinction between species and varieties.

There is no real difference in the genetic processes underlying artificial and natural selection, and the concept of artificial selection was used by Charles Darwin as an illustration of the wider process of natural selection.

It supports the POSIX API by way of its BSD lineage and a large number of programs written for various other UNIX-like systems can be compiled on Darwin with no changes to the source code.

This story is often given as an example of a Darwin Award ; however it appears to be apocryphal, with no basis in fact.

Darwin's long-time critic St. George Mivart thought that the intermediate stages could have no selective value, and in the 6th edition of the Origin, Darwin made a concession to the possibility of acquired traits.

There are no scheduled air services between Jabiru and Darwin however.

: There is nothing in modern philosophy that appears to me so extraordinary, as the revival of what has long been considered as the exploded doctrine of equivocal, or, as Dr. Darwin calls it, spontaneous generation ; by which is meant the production of organized bodies from substances that have no organization, as plants and animals from no pre-existing germs of the same kinds, plants without seeds, and animals without sexual intercourse.

* the writings of David Hume and Immanuel Kant ( and later, Charles Darwin ), which increased doubt about the first cause argument and the argument from design, turning many ( though not all ) potential deists towards atheism instead

Discovery of the great depth of the volcanic remnant beneath many atolls such as at Midway Atoll favors the Darwin explanation, although there can be little doubt that fluctuating sea level has had considerable influence on atolls and other reefs.

Wallace was also a keen entomologist, and he had read the same kind of books as Bates had, and as Darwin, Huxley and no doubt many others had.

In the first edition of On the Origin of Species, Darwin briefly mentioned inheritance of acquired characters under the heading " Effects of Use and Disuse ", expressing little doubt that use " strengthens and enlarges certain parts, and disuse diminishes them ; and that such modifications are inherited ".< ref > Darwin, 1859, pp. 134 – 139.

Darwin had Gray in mind when he wrote that " It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent theist & an evolutionist.

However, some doubt was cast on this story by the fact that Darwin had never visited the island that Harriet originally came from.

Also, in an earlier letter to Huxley, Dated November 12, 1857, nearly nine years before the letter to Wallace, Darwin expressed his beginnings of doubt regarding the idea of blending inheritance:

Darwin told Haeckel " I doubt whether my strength will last for much more serious work.

Although the Dunning – Kruger effect was put forward in 1999, David Dunning and Justin Kruger have quoted Charles Darwin (" Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge ") and Bertrand Russell (" One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision ") as authors who have recognised the phenomenon.